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The cropping tool does not work. Clicking on the icon merely changes the cursor. I can shift the photo on the background, but that's all.  I watched the cropping tutorial 3 times. The only thing I learned was that the demo had a different layout of tools on the toolbar than I had, and there was no context toolbar displayed when the crop icon was selected. It was nothing but a black band.  The tutorial demo showed a default of the thirds grid as soon as the crop tool was selected. That did not happen for me.

 

 

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Hi DaveG703,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

The Crop Tool you are describing is from Affinity Designer, which is an object based crop tool. The videos you are seeing are probably from Affinity Photo which has a document based crop tool with several options in the context toolbar. Those are different programs and their crop tools also differ in how they work.

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I do not question what you have said, but I don't see that as a response to my problem. Therefore I will state it more directly:

How in heck do I get the crop tool to work in the Beta of Affinity Designer? (If indeed it works at all.) It is the only Affinity program I have.

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The Affinity Designer Vector Crop Tool will only crop objects. To use it for that, select it, click on a vector shape, & drag the handles that appear at the edges of the selected shape, or drag the shape itself. (The status bar at the bottom of the workspace window briefly tells you how to use the tool, so you can refer to that.)

 

It will not work like the cropping tool you saw in the video (no thirds grid, no context toolbar options) because the video shows the Affinity Photos crop tool, which works differently.

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The Vector Crop Tool works on all type of objects vector based or not. It can also be used to crop (image) and (pixel) layer types. The main difference apart from the options offered in the context toolbar for the Crop Tool in Photo is that in Designer the Vector Crop Tool is object based rather than document based, which means it will NOT crop the document - just the selected object.

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  • 4 years later...

Normally I crop the canvas by using from Designer the "Edit in Photo" command. It works and I am satisfied of that. Then I go back in Designer.

But now I have a Designer file that, when I pass to Photo, gets the crop tool disabled (greyed).

Why?

Thanks

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2 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:

Why?

Because it has artboards. Not compatible with the pixel crop tool. An artboard is essentially the master crop tool in Designer.

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42 minutes ago, loukash said:

Because it has artboards. Not compatible with the pixel crop tool. An artboard is essentially the master crop tool in Designer.

On Windows the Crop Tool is still available in Photo when the document has Artboards.

However, when you click Apply the cropping you have setup is thrown away, and the document remains unchanged.

That's different from the behavior that @Gianni Becattini described.

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

On Windows the Crop Tool is still available in Photo when the document has Artboards.

Not the only Mac vs Win difference, haha…

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44 minutes ago, loukash said:

Not the only Mac vs Win difference, haha…

Since "Apply" apparently doesn't do anything I don't think it matters. 😄

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4 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:

I understand that this depends on Artboards. But can I go back from an Artboard-design to a non-Artboard-design?

As far as I know, no, except by copy/pasting content into a new document.

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3 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:

can I go back from an Artboard-design to a non-Artboard-design

Sure.
Select the Artboard layer, hit the Delete key, in the dialog window confirm Keep Objects.

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